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That Navajo blanket you bought on your vacation in Taos, N.M., and brought back to Chicago? The one you assumed had heretofore languished in the home of the artisan who wove it? Not quite. Someone called a "picker" found it in a small shop in Milwaukee and bought it for $400. He called a dealer in Taos and sold it to him for 10 times the price. Shortly thereafter you bought it for still more and brought it back to Chicago, beginning the cycle again. That's a true story, told by one of Chicago's top pickers, someone who makes a living sifting through the grunge for objects of value.

Vic Berardi and two dozen of his friends last year collectively spent 695 hours sitting in Illinois Beach State Park, staring into the sky, often in damp, frigid weather, to count 4,184 birds flying so high most could be seen only with binoculars. Nobody thanked them for their efforts. Not a single taxpayer dime was expended for so much as a cup of coffee for them. It was their fifth annual count of migrating hawks, eagles and falcons that every autumn funnel through a narrow air corridor over the park, a vital part of a database on the continent's raptor populations.

The following is a snapshot of how Chicago area moviegoers compared with their national counterparts in viewing the most recent movie releases. %% LOCAL TOP 10 Beverly Hills Chihuahua $460,875 Quarantine $440,472 Body Of Lies $395,265 Eagle Eye $310,478 Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist $190,264 The Express $138,863 Nights In Rodanthe $93,633 The Duchess $82,878 City Of Ember $82,187 Lakeview Terrace $71,641 NATIONAL TOP 10 Beverly Hills...

$29.2 million Hefty amount that Shia LaBeouf's "Eagle Eye" soared to over the weekend, making it the No. 1 movie of the weekend. txtable Main man What was Shia LaBeouf's last movie to debut at No. 1? Text "shia" and the number of your reply to 47383. You'll get an answer telling you if you're right. 1. "Transformers" 2. "Disturbia" 3. "Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" 4. "Holes" 5. "The Greatest Game Ever Played"